Holidays- the Thanksgiving meal through my daughter
While on Instagram yesterday evening I saw my daughter's photo she snapped, after constructing and arranging the perfect plating.
Slabs of turkey, butternut squash, ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing, beans and then ham & turkey gravy poured generously over only the luckiest of Thanksgiving menu fair. As Tameryn, youngest daughter was plating her choices, Thea was showing her, her ways. The younger approved of this slathering resulting in her eating more than she usually would, a happy thing for Mom.
I have not been stuffing the bird for a few years but, baking it in a casserole making for a crunchy top. This year I used the crock-pot for the stuffing. It was pretty terrific done this way and definitely a technique I will continue to use, for it clears up the oven. This method also mimics the turkey cavity making for a moist flavorful stuffing.
Fresh potted kitchen herbs were perfect for this task using sweet marjoram, parsley, thyme and sage. These herbs thrown in the stuffing mix after sauteing the unsalted butter, onions and celery... before pouring this and also chicken stock on the dried bread crumbs is wonderful compared to using dried. I saved some of the bacon dripping from the broccoli salad, the night prior for sauteing also, which added a nice extra to the flavor profile.
Cream cheese to the mashed potatoes, ham drippings/garlic/brown sugar to the beans, bacon on the turkey again and then pecans, melted unsalted butter and brown sugar tossed with the butternut squash before baking to list some of the additions to food staples on our table. I went through about 2-lbs of unsalted butter during meal preparation.
and then they cleaned up doing the dishes and putting away for leftovers..... brilliant I say.
Aren't leftovers your favorite part or also the aroma from a good day in the kitchen. You can't replicate that any other way, LOVE IT!
What is your Thanksgiving plating technique?
Slabs of turkey, butternut squash, ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing, beans and then ham & turkey gravy poured generously over only the luckiest of Thanksgiving menu fair. As Tameryn, youngest daughter was plating her choices, Thea was showing her, her ways. The younger approved of this slathering resulting in her eating more than she usually would, a happy thing for Mom.
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| daughter Thea's constructed Thanksgiving |
Fresh potted kitchen herbs were perfect for this task using sweet marjoram, parsley, thyme and sage. These herbs thrown in the stuffing mix after sauteing the unsalted butter, onions and celery... before pouring this and also chicken stock on the dried bread crumbs is wonderful compared to using dried. I saved some of the bacon dripping from the broccoli salad, the night prior for sauteing also, which added a nice extra to the flavor profile.
Cream cheese to the mashed potatoes, ham drippings/garlic/brown sugar to the beans, bacon on the turkey again and then pecans, melted unsalted butter and brown sugar tossed with the butternut squash before baking to list some of the additions to food staples on our table. I went through about 2-lbs of unsalted butter during meal preparation.
and then they cleaned up doing the dishes and putting away for leftovers..... brilliant I say.
Aren't leftovers your favorite part or also the aroma from a good day in the kitchen. You can't replicate that any other way, LOVE IT!
What is your Thanksgiving plating technique?
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